Philler Cottage
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| Location | Jetty Rd. & Pendleton Point Rd., Dark Harbor, Islesboro, Maine |
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| Coordinates | 44°15′31″N 68°54′45″W / 44.25861°N 68.91250°WCoordinates: 44°15′31″N 68°54′45″W / 44.25861°N 68.91250°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built | 1894 |
| Architect | Fred Savage |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 85000726[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1985 |
The Philler Cottage, previously the Dark Harbor House Inn, is a historic house at Pendleton Point and Jetty Roads in Islesboro, Maine. Built in 1894 for a wealthy Philadelphia banker, it is a high-quality regional example of a Georgian Revival summer house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
Description and history[]
The town of Islesboro occupies an eponymous island in Penobscot Bay, on the central Maine coast. The island is roughly shaped as two lobes joined by a narrow isthmus. The Philler Cottage is located close to the village of Dark Harbor, at the northern end of a peninsula that juts south from the southern lobe of the island. It is set on a roughly triangular property bounded on the north by Pendleton Point Road (the main north-south road on that part of the island) and on the south by Jetty Road. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a two-story servants wing extending to one side. The roof is pierced by two brick chimneys and several dormers with gable roofs, and is topped by a widow's walk railing. The long sides of the house each have an entrance sheltered by a porch with Tuscan columns, and an upper-level balustrade with posts topped by urns. A two-story porch, also supported by Tuscan columns, adorns the west side.[2]
The house was built in 1894-96 to a design by architect Fred Savage of Bar Harbor, Maine, for George Philler, a wealthy banker from Philadelphia. Philler was one of a number of Philadelphia businessmen who organized an exclusive resort development in the Dark Harbor area, which was anchored by the now-lost Islesboro Inn. The house had served as the Dark Harbor House Inn,[2] which is now closed.[citation needed]
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References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "NRHP nomination for Philler Cottage". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
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